“During their long journey to Ogasawara Islands, the green turtles are likely to ingest and accumulate plastic distributed ...
This animal eats plastic and poops it out at the bottom of the sea – and scientists just recorded it
In a scientific first, researchers have recorded how quickly microplastics pass through the gut of zooplankton to better ...
Learn how zooplankton act as carriers of microplastics to the deep ocean, transporting hundreds of particles per cubic meter of seawater per day.
J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...
Beatrix Beisner receives funding from NSERC. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Plankton Research (Oxford University Press) and a member of the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en ...
Left panel: The traditional view of how zooplankton transport carbon to depth by eating phytoplankton in surface waters in summer, whereby their waste material (Particulate Organic Carbon, POC) sinks ...
Here's what happens: The plankton eat algae that contains the acid, and then the fish eat the plankton, and the sea lions eat the fish — one thing surviving off another, passing on the toxic acid.
Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate Earth's climate by storing carbon. While lab ...
Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate Earth's climate by storing carbon. While lab ...
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